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– Nothing Left to Fight For: The most rightwing government Britain has had since the Second World War does not deserve to be re-elected.

– Ecuador’s President Correa in Conflict with Indigenous Movement: Samuele Mazzolin on why the Ecuaodorean president’s agenda for modernisation and wealth redistribution has brought him into an unlikely conflict with the country’s indigenous groups.

– I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff… : To speak of “natural” disasters is to indulge in a misnomer. Inequality, very much a man-made phenomenon, has greatly exacerbated the human cost of a spate of natural disasters in recent years.

– Students and the Struggle for Human Rights in Colombia: An Interview with Colombian Student Leader Numa Paredes: Campaign group “Justice For Colombia” interviewing Colombian student leader Numa Paredes.

– Who Cares for the Carers?: How privatisation is costing social care workers.

– Venezuela’s Only Contacts with FARC were for Humanitarian Exchange Says Minister: Venezuela’s foreign minister has refuted US-sourced allegations that Hugo Chavez has been financing the Colombian rebel group FARC.